Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technical expertise matched his ability to communicate. "Bob was excellent at first aid. He was an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), and he took it very seriously. He had a very detailed knowledge of the field of emergency medical care--it was better than mine. I think I had more experience than he did, but in a weird case, you'd do better to have Patterson along, because he'd read the book. He'd read all of them...
Patterson smoked massive quantities of dope. Jim tells the story of the time Bob and four or five of his friends wanted to get high in the Moffat Tunnel, a six-mile-long railroad tunnel beneath the Continental Divide, its western portal across a bridge from the Winter Park lodge. They walked in about 30 yards, sat down in the middle of the tracks with a huge bong, and proceeded to get blown away. Jim, who does not smoke pot, stayed outside in the parking lot, looking at the stars, when from far down the valley he heard the forlorn...
...Then we all went down to the bar, hoping that they might have placed. The other skiers were all pretty hot. But Joe won first and Bob won second; I guess Joe got about a 100 bucks, Bob about 50. Now we'd been raising hell in this town for about a week, driving around sitting on top of cars and just carrying on. Anyway, in the bar, this guy stood up and made a speech about how they'd really appreciated it how the group of us had come down and really livened up their town and they just...
...BOB PATTERSON aspired to a lot of things," Jim says, but he didn't put much effort into things he didn't care about. "The goodness of the person is hard to evaluate on paper. He broke a lot of rules he had no business breaking, he was contemptuous of higher-ups, he got into a lot of trouble, and people who didn't know him very well didn't like him. The magic of the guy was his personality and what he could contribute to a group of people...
Patterson was the oldest child of a wealthy Denver executive, and a graduate of a private school south of Denver. Two years older than Jim, he was a sophomore pre-med at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) when he won the Telluride contest. Bob was a tremendous skier, and well-known in Boulder as an excellent hang-glider pilot. He was bright, and although he did not aspire to academic success, he respected it and sometimes achieved...